Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work

Post by postalrat » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

rdtwo wrote: post #37

whiskey14 wrote: post #30

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I'm beginning to think that collective distributed satellite offices is going to be big. Like WeWork but for companies to house their local staff and far less culty. Would help if they had standing desks, folding treadmills, three screens and everything else for a superb dev experience that is a bit of a pain to set up at home.

I mean that’s the worst of both worlds. You get to be a remote employee as in you don’t sit with your team but you still have to commute to an office

Post by whiskey14 » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 2:57 PM UTC

rdtwo wrote: post #37

whiskey14 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm beginning to think that collective distributed satellite offices is going to be big. Like WeWork but for companies to house their local staff and far less culty. Would help if they had standing desks, folding treadmills, three screens and everything else for a superb dev experience that is a bit of a pain to set up at home.

I mean that’s the worst of both worlds. You get to be a remote employee as in you don’t sit with your team but you still have to commute to an office

Post by torben-friis » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

ukoki wrote: post #7

whiskey14 wrote: post #4

It seems that Musk at this point is completely unaware that he is a walking contradiction. On one hand, he is a technologist. Forward thinking and driving towards the future. On the other hand, he is an old fashioned factory owner. He views his workforce as pure labour and can't accept that he can't force his employees to work under his total control. He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in…

The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.

Post by jahlove » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 4:16 PM UTC

Post by zeroonetwothree » Thu, Nov 10, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

torben-friis wrote: post #45

ukoki wrote: post #7

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The cheapest way to downsize is to have employees quit of their own accord. Removing benefits like WFH incentives this.

This is exactly why in my country the law uses the concept of 'acquired rights'. Basically, if an employee is consistently given a perk for a certain time, said perk implicitly becomes part of the contract and taking it away allows the worker to quit receiving the same compensation as if they've been fired.